Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-12
T. c. U. s. sc.
Interesting, Profitable and Well
Attended Sessions.

Interesting, Profitable and Well
Attended Sessions.
| WA-KEEEEY, Nov. 8, 1887.
Trego County Union 8. s. Convention
met in the opera hall at 2 p. NJ, Brother
Walker in the chair.
Brother Mahafie being absent, Mrs. E.
ID. Carson was chosen secretary for the
day.
Brother Uptegrove was chosen to sup
ply Brother Rogers place on the program
Sunday morning.
The Sunday schools in the district were
represented in convention: JAS. N. Dean,
Pleasant Valley; Otis York, Banner;
Mary J. Snider, and Mrs. E. Uptegrove,
Downer; w. Uptegrove, superintendent
of Downer school; Rev. w. B. Brown,
Presbyterian Sunday school, Wa-Keeney;
F. L. Walker, Mary G. Walker, David
McCollum and Mrs. G. e. Lawrence, Bap-
fist school, Wa-Keeney; M. s. Hoover,
Dell and Chester Fuson, Methodist school,
Wa-Keeney; Mrs. E. d. Carson, Christian
school, Wa-Keeney; o. Hanson, Sheridan
county, Kansas; ]. P. Hutchinson, Merton,
Ill; Mrs. Jas. nj. Rhodes, Fairview, Kan;
Sarah Walker, Nettie Pierce, J. Fl. March
and Albert Jones, Wa-Keeney; Mrs. L. A.
Wallace, Happy.
On the needs of the Sunday school,
Brother Bright said, 1--WE need more love
for the pupils, more work, more study;
we should 'chaw' or masticate the lesson
every day of the week, studying our die
tionaries, our quarterlies and our lesson
leaves and above all our Bibles, until we
are so saturated with the lesson that we
can 60 to our class with only our Bible in
our hand and inspire the pupils with zeal
and love and of knowledge of Christ as it
is taught in the lesson"
Rev. Hutchinson says Illinois is in the
lead in the Sunday school work. He is
willing that our Kansas car may come up
alongside of the Illinois car, but unwill-
ing that she shall go in advance.
Mrs. Walker suggests promptness and
persistent effort as two of the needs.
Rev. Brown says we must have the gen.
uine love of Christ in our own hearts or
we cannot love the children as we ought.
Brother Dean read the constitution and
bylaws and they we're adopted, and the
permanent organization proceeded to-.
Following are the officers: Rev. F. l..
Walker, president: Rev. w. B. Brown,
Otis York, Miles Knapp and W. H. Will
COX, vice presidents; Mrs. E. D. Carson,
permanent secretary; Mrs. NJ. F. Beavers,
assistant secretary; Rev. w. II. Mahaffie.
treasurer; Rev. Walker and Mrs. E. D.
Carson, delegates to state convention at
McPherson; Rev. IBrown and w. Upte-
grove, alternates.
The convention was pronounced sue
cess. On Lords Day the opera hall was
full to overhowing at each of the three
lengthy sessions. The papers we're pre-
pared with care and the meetings we're
enthusiastic, inspiring Sunday school
workers with new zeal and courage. The
praise service was especially fine. The
large audience was held as by spell
while Brother Bright sang his temperance
songs, closing with that wonderful warn
ing to everybody, "The Handwriting On
the Wall" The collection, over $40, for
the state work, was surprise to every
body.
The committee on resolutions suggested
the following, which we're adopted:
1. That we hail with delight and feel
ings of devout thankfulness to our kind
Father this suspicious beginning of
organized Sunday school work in this
county.
2. That we intend, by example, by pre-
cept, and by honest, persistent Christian
effort, to bring,as nearly as possible, every
person in the county and every one who
may come into it in the future under
Sunday school training.
8. That we recommend that our demon
national schools use their own church
literature in their schools, and that the
union schools use that of the American
Sunday School Union.
4. That we do all we can to suppress
and stamp out the vile cheap stuff called
literature, that is put within the reach of
our children, and supply as far as we can,
in its stead, sound, wholesome, Christian
reading.
5. That thorough, sound and useful
teaching on the all absorbing, all import
ant subject OF temperance, be enjoined on
all our teachers and schools.
6. That we have an eye to and put forth
our constant endeavor to by all right
means suppress Sabbath dissertation, so
prevalent in the west.
z. That our hearty thanks are due to
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